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Re: ikea kitchens

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We are in the middle of doing a set at the moment, which will be released for www.beyondbargrill.com in August 07...
I trust you will let us all know when we can see it. There will be lots of interest.
We are using 50 cameras, but KOKOKAKA used 100 (if you count the frames in flash, by just taping the mouse).
The Ikea stuff was definitely one motion controlled video camera. You can find several discussions about the production by the people involved with a Google search. Plus there is the behind the scenes images and video.

I am fascinated by your 50 camera setup. I was about to ask what the least expensive remotely fireable digital camera might be to accomplish something like this. Would you be so kind to give us more details???
By careful though as the whole process is under a strict Patent by Digital Air http://www.virtualcamera.com/license.html who invented it.
I have to wonder about how defensible the patents really are. If you check the Wikipedia and other entries on "bullet time" you will see that the technique has been around for a couple decades, possibly as early as 1975 but certainly 1981. In any case the earliest reference I noticed in Digital Air's patent application was an article from 1996. But take a look at this 10/1994 Suede - The Wild Ones Video. Some scenes had people holding very still as the camera moves around but some seem impossible without a multi still camera solution and it is often referenced as an early example of this. I also found this history of Bullet Time technique revealing. Certainly, Digital Air couldn't defend a patent on the general technique and they certainly did not invent it.


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